Cloudera is excited to bring you news of Cloudera Enterprise 5.5. Our persistent emphasis on quality is especially pronounced in this release, with more than 500 issues identified and triaged during its development.

A highlight of this release is the inclusion of Cloudera Navigator Optimizer (available in limited beta for select Cloudera Enterprise customers;

Impala is designed to deliver insight on data in Apache Hadoop in real time. As data often lands in Hadoop continuously in certain use cases (such as time-series analysis, real-time fraud detection, real-time risk detection, and so on), it’s desirable for Impala to query this new “fast” data with minimal delay and without interrupting running queries.

In this blog post, you will learn an approach for continuous loading of data into Impala via HDFS,

Combining CDH with a business execution engine can serve as a solid foundation for complex event processing on big data.

Event processing involves tracking and analyzing streams of data from events to support better insight and decision making. With the recent explosion in data volume and diversity of data sources, this goal can be quite challenging for architects to achieve.

Complex event processing (CEP) is a type of event processing that combines data from multiple sources to identify patterns and complex relationships across various events.

As is their custom, Cloudera Engineering’s interns made innovation, especially for Apache Spark, the theme of the Summer season.

Cloudera has a long-time tradition of searching far and wide for the smartest summer engineering interns that it can find. Alumni of the program have become start-up co-founders, faculty at top-tier CS departments, employees at other prominent technology companies (including Google, Databricks, Uber, LinkedIn), as well as many current employees at Cloudera.

Learn about the near real-time data ingest architecture for transforming and enriching data streams using Apache Flume, Apache Kafka, and RocksDB at Santander UK.

Cloudera Professional Services has been working with Santander UK to build a near real-time (NRT) transactional analytics system on Apache Hadoop. The objective is to capture, transform, enrich, count, and store a transaction within a few seconds of a card purchase taking place. The system receives the bank’s retail customer card transactions and calculates the associated trend information aggregated by account holder and over a number of dimensions and taxonomies.